22.11.2021
Compensation in Infrastructure Investment, Part 6 – Attraction and Retention. This week we are joined by special guest Niall Mills, Global Head of Infrastructure at First Sentier Investors, who joins Infrastructure’s most diverse recruitment team as it discusses attraction and retention strategies at large in the market.
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23.08.2023
H1 of 2023 has been an interesting 6 months in the wider economy, which has seen increased interest rates and question marks around the certainty of the economy. Relative to the macroeconomic climate, the Infrastructure Credit market has had a stable start to 2023 with continued hiring across all levels, with the junior end of the market producing the most moves as it does every year.
23.08.2023
Throughout H1 2023 there has been caution in the air, with the broader economy already suffering the repercussions of high interest rates and an inflationary market. In such circumstances, it is common for companies to reduce costs by scaling back on recruitment, and we saw this with Global Investment Banks as they implemented hiring freezes after multiple rounds of layoffs.
23.08.2023
In the past two years, a number of infrastructure funds made deliberate and focused efforts to build out their ESG teams to drive value creation by ensuring that they brought in strong leadership to spearhead their sustainability efforts and this trend has continued in 2023 for those funds that were behind the curve or those that were taking on new energy transition or climate strategies.
23.08.2023
In the introduction to the last edition of this report, we pointed out that a high number of moves from industry into private markets funds was being observed. Over the course of H1 2023, another interesting trend and the opposite flow of traffic has emerged with a significant number of professionals transitioning from banks and funds to join portfolio companies.